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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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No Upward Growth, Layoff Fears, and Underpaid Employees - Senior Project Manager Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
Jul 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work environment If you have a good manager and good team members, your day to day experience will be fine. They make an effort to have some on-site offerings such as yoga, 5k training, mentoring opportunities, etc.

Cons

Sorely lacking job security - Thermo has been secretly laying off massive amounts of people without informing anyone. We find out through the grapevine or when a key stakeholder is no longer responding. Lack of communication or clear vision from leadership - There is no clear roadmap set by leadership, management is flailing as a result, and the "open door" policies are not actually true. Far less than average pay, and any attempts to bring this up with management is met with reluctance. Managers don't feel they have enough support from leadership or HR to push a very fair pay raise through. This is not worth it when job security is faltering and we don't have a solid vision of where we're going or what our work means.

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Pros

You'll get hands-on experience with regulated lab environments, which is genuinely valuable early in your career. The CRO world gives you transferable knowledge of clinical trial operations that other companies will recognize. If you're self-motivated, there's room to build things on your own. I taught myself new tools and built reporting dashboards for my department because nobody else was going to do it. Tuition reimbursement existed when I started, which was a real benefit.

Cons

Compensation does not match the workload. You will be overworked and underpaid, and when you bring it up, nothing changes. I repeatedly asked leadership to let me take on work that aligned with my career goals and education, but I was always "too busy" with my regular responsibilities for that to happen. They'll happily benefit from your output but won't invest in your growth. The tuition reimbursement policy changed while I was mid-degree, which tells you everything about how they view employee development. Benefits are underwhelming for a company this size, and when I needed them most, they fell short. A workplace injury made it very clear where employees fall on their priority list, and it's well below the bottom line.

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